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Date: 1757-9

Caprice veers like the Winds

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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Date: 1757-9

"[N]o Sentence so severe / As this, my Mind, much less my Paper, stains"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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"But Virtue Minds of nobler Stamp invites / To her sincere and more refin'd Delights."

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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"His Colour chang'd, and hung his Head, / As if some Thief had lately stole / His Gold; his other better Soul--"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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"In harden'd Oak his Heart did hide, / And Ribs of Iron arm'd his Side!"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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"Impenetrable Courage steels his manly Breast."

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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"He gapes to catch the Droppings of my Lord; / And tickled to the Soul at every Joke, / Like a press'd Watch repeats what t'other spoke: / Echo to Nonsense! such a Scene to hear!"

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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Date: 1757-9

"To Gold yields Silver, and to Virtue Gold, / If Reason's Hand th'impartial Balance hold."

— Duncombe, John (1729-1786) [Editor]

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Date: 1757

"Whatever turns the soul inward upon itself, tends to concenter forces, and to fit it for greater and stronger flights of science."

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

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Date: 1757

"By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit whether we take or whether we lose our game, the chace is certainly of service"

— Burke, Edmund (1729-1797)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.